First day of the [ IBM System Storage Technical University 2011 ] continued with more keynote sessions.
Jim Rymarczyk Jim is an IBM Fellow for IBM Systems and Technology Group. There are only 73 IBM Fellows currently working for IBM, and this is the highest...

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Continuing my week in Washington DC for the annual [ 2010 System Storage Technical University ], I presented a session on Storage for the Green Data Center, and attended a System x session on Greening the Data Center. Since they...

Its been so difficult to keep all this to myself over the last few months, especially last month when we actually reached our goal. 1 Million real life IOPs at less than 1ms - no caching, just pure raw performance. You may, or may not have seen the IBM press...

It seems a common thread in technology blogs to post some predictions for the coming year. However, as I'm not an analyst and don't profess to understand the entire storage industry, I thought I'd keep to a brief history of 2008 as I saw it - obviously with an...

I've just been through some of our detailed results for 4Q, given that we only announced availability of the new CF8 hardware back in November and exceeded expectations with their adoption. Over the quarter Tivoli Storage Software, which SVC comes under, saw...

Looking back through my posts its been some months since I last opened the floor to you all, so here is you chance, a free floor. Ask anything you like, about SVC of course, but if I don't know I'm sure I know someone that will. Recently I've heard some quite...

April 12, 2016 marks the 5th announcement of IBM Power Systems based on the POWER8 processor technology. Here are my picks for the 5 Things to Know about the announcement, but be sure to keep an eye at the online resources as the announcement...

I find I start so many posts these days describing how busy I've been as an excuse to why my post
frequency has been lower than normal. This has to have been a new record as I spotted my last post was over a
month ago. This time however I do have a much...

A work colleague asked if is RSS feed for my blog was broken the other day. Things have been sure crazy for the last few weeks - thats always my excuse! I did have this post in the sidelines, and wanted the mud slinging to stop before I set the record...

What: Accelerate with ATS: Disk Options for IBM i This presentation describes the options for exploiting external disk with IBM i. Both direct attached and VIOS attached solutions will be discussed as well as the options that are available to improve business...

One of the key benefits of the Storwize V7000 product is its built in Virtiualization capabilites. Or as some vendors like to call it Federation? Its been almost 9 years since we first released SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and in that time, its been through 6...

A new white paper has just been posted - An Assessment of SSD Performance in the IBM System Storage DS8000. Solid State Drives (SSDs) enable dramatically higher throughput and lower response times, providing the potential to significantly lower operational...

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